Bone-marrow-derived multipotent progenitor stromal cells — or mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) — are the common predecessors of cells of the mesenchymal lineage, such as bone, cartilage and fat ...

The trafficking of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is important for maintaining normal bone marrow development ... investigated the migration of murine HSCs to a large number of CC and CXC chemokines.